Bend stabbing suspect bitten by police K-9 during arrest

(Update: Suspect charged; adding name, arraignment)

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man was arrested Tuesday with the help of a police K-9 and faces assault and other charges in the stabbing of another Bend man a day earlier.

 Around 3:15 p.m. on Monday, officers responded to the Campfire Hotel in the 700 block of NE Third Street after a man entered the lobby and reported he'd been stabbed, Bend Police Communications Manager Sheila Miller said in a news release Tuesday evening.

The victim reported the incident had taken place in the 200 block of NE Franklin Avenue and that he'd been stabbed once by an unknown person. The victim was transported to St. Charles Bend with minor injuries, Miller said.

Over the course of the investigation, officers identified the suspect, Kienan Dean Maximchuk of Bend, Miller said.

Around 4:50 p.m. on Tuesday, detectives, patrol officers and members of the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team executed a search warrant at a campsite in the area of Butler Market Road and the Bend Parkway, Miller said.

Officers first detained a 30-year-old Bend woman with an outstanding arrest warrant for a parole violation. The stabbing suspect was detained shortly before 5 p.m.

Police K-9 Maggie deployed and bit Maximchuk during his arrest. He suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.  

Maximchuk was taken first to the Bend Police Department and then to the Deschutes County Jail on suspicion of second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon, Miller said. The woman was jailed on the parole violation warrant.  

Maximchuk was arraigned Wednesday afternoon on charges of second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. A judge scheduled arraignment on an expected formal indictment for Feb. 19, court records show. Deschutes County Jail records show he remained held Wednesday on $100,000 bail.